October 25, 2008	Saturday	Shawwal 25, 1429

HYDERABAD, Oct 24: Sindh University pro-vice chancellor Professor Dr Rafia Ahmed Shaikh has called upon women councillors of Sindh to fulfil their responsibilities by serving community.

She was speaking at the closing ceremony of a four-day training workshop on gender-based governance system jointly organized by the UNDP and the Centre for Rural Development Communication, University of Sindh, for women councillors of Kotri taluka.Dr Shaikh said that community had assigned responsibility to the councillors to represent them and solve their problems and it was their prime duty to look after the community without any discrimination.

She said that they must pay attention to the problems of the society, particularly those pertaining to health and education sectors. Dr Shaikh said that people of remote areas were facing different problems and lack of education and health facilities were basic problems confronting them.

Speaking on the occasion, Jamshoro District Naib Nazim Abdul Hameed Buledi lauded the efforts of the UNDP and the CRDC for arranging the workshop. He said that he had attended many such workshops but it was for the first time that a workshop had been organized in an academic environment.

Offering cooperation of the Jamshoro district government, he expressed the hoped that women councillors would utilise the knowledge gained in the workshop for the welfare of society.

Special secretary for planning and development, Rehana G. Ali Memon, advised the women councillors to work hard for the betterment of the people of their areas. Later Dr Shaikh and Ms Memon distributed certificates among the participants.